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Special offer. Thousands of Miles

Kate Lindsey (mezzo), Baptiste Trotignon (piano)

Thousands of Miles

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Billed as ‘Kate Lindsey with Baptiste Trotignon’, it reveals the jazz pianist, who shows luminous classical credentials here too, as equal to the mezzo’s multi-hued originality…I’d like to hear...

BBC Music Magazine, October 20174 out of 5 stars

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Special offer. Thousands of Miles

Kate Lindsey (mezzo), Baptiste Trotignon (piano)

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Awards:

Billed as ‘Kate Lindsey with Baptiste Trotignon’, it reveals the jazz pianist, who shows luminous classical credentials here too, as equal to the mezzo’s multi-hued originality…I’d like to hear...

BBC Music Magazine, October 20174 out of 5 stars

More reviews

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Closing the distance between classical music and Broadway, between the old world and the new, this album is born out of a stunning encounter between two performers. Kate Lindsey is an opera star whose career is skyrocketing. She has stunned audiences with her performances of Mozart and Purcell. Baptiste Trotignon is a multi award-winning jazz pianist who plays with big names like Brad Mehldau or Tom Harrell, but who has a long-held interest in classical music, even composing a piano concerto for Nicholas Angelich. Together, they have produced a rich and varied programme around the songs of Kurt Weill, from Nanna’s Lied to Trouble Man, and classics from The Threepenny Opera and Lost in the Stars.

This journey through three European languages brings the listener to the very beginnings of jazz, and features all-new arrangements and deft improvisations by pianist Baptiste Trotignon. Lindsey and Trotignon also pay homage to three composers who, like Weill, all emigrated to the United States: Alma Mahler, Zemlinsky and Korngold. London-based American mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey joins Alpha Classics for several recordings over the coming years.

  • Release date: 19th May 2017
  • Label: Alpha
  • Catalogue number: ALPHA272
  • Length: 72 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Weill, K: Nanna's lied (Text: Bertolt Brecht)
Work length3:24
Weill, K: The Threepenny Opera: Pirate Jenny - Barbara Song
Work length4:23
Weill, K: Lost in the Stars: Trouble Man
Work length3:35
Mahler, A: Hymne
Work length5:19
Weill, K: Je ne t'aime pas (text: Maurice Magre)
Work length4:42
Weill, K: Lost in the Stars: Thousands of Miles - Big Mole
Work length4:41
Weill, K: Don’t Look Now
Work length3:01
Korngold: Schneeglöckchen
Work length2:51
Mahler, A: Die stille Stadt
Work length3:05
Korngold: Mond, so gehst du wieder auf
Work length4:10
Weill, K: Street Scene: Lonely House - We’ll Go Away Together
Work length5:43
Weill, K: Der Abschiedsbrief
Work length3:18
Weill, K: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: Denn wie man sich bettet, so liegt man
Work length4:33
Weill, K: Buddy on the Nightshift - Berlin im Licht
Work length3:40
Zemlinsky: Und hat der Tag all seine Qual
Work length4:18
Zemlinsky: Selige Stunde
Work length2:15

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Awards and reviews

  • The New York Times
    Recordings of the Year 2017

October 2017

Billed as ‘Kate Lindsey with Baptiste Trotignon’, it reveals the jazz pianist, who shows luminous classical credentials here too, as equal to the mezzo’s multi-hued originality…I’d like to hear more of Lindsey and Trotignon together in this repertoire
4 out of 5 stars

15th June 2017

Here’s an opera-singer-goes-off-piste CD that’s unusually rewarding...Lindsey’s assimilation of the style sounds near effortless, and only occasionally does she give the feeling she has anything to prove. The first song, Nanna’s Lied, has her voice turning on a sixpence from Weimar drawl to a Lieder-singer’s poise and back again.
4 out of 5 stars

19th May 2017

Lindsey never sounds as if she’s dragging her voice anywhere it doesn’t want to go. She is incisive with text, in German and English alike...All told, Lindsey finds a lot more to Weill than just rasping dames in fishnet tights.
4 out of 5 stars

New York Times 13th December 2017

Lindsey shows just how nimble her voice can be with this diverse collection of 20th-century songs.

Opera Now July 2017

The range Kate Lindsey displays on her new disc Thousands of Miles is astonishingly varied. The recital is a brilliant Vienna Secession-meets-jazz-meets-Broadway programme of Weill, Zemlinsky and Korngold

Record Review 3rd June 2017

Heart stoppingly beautiful. It's a superb recital of Weill songs
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